We are set to meet the radiation doctor on Thursday morning. He is Dr. Daniel Chang of Stanford University Medical Center. Stanford (aka SUMC) is the inventor of the cyberknife and their website also is very informative.
You may recall that the surgeon put gold drops (fiducials) in Mary's remaining liver to allow the radiation folks to exactly target the area of interest. We'll find out on Thursday how that affects the proposed treatment.
Otherwise, Reenie has done grocery shopping and will be cooking up a storm so we don't starve after she leaves on Wednesday.
Mary is much stronger. Clearly the "cold turkey" method of quiting Roxicodone does not work for her. We have a scheduled "step down" process enabled by Reenie's pill splitter. It will be a mix of full dose and half dose pills until she is down to nothing by Saturday. While this is happening, Mary's appetite is definitely back, she walked out to get the mail with me this afternoon and her spirits are very good. The progress during the day today was magnificent.
Right now, Mary is programming our TiVo to capture the new season of "The Closer." We taped the first episode and TNT ran past the top of the hour so we are missing the last few minutes. Mary found the next showing and we're now watching the 2nd showing to see the last moments of the show. Amazingly, Reenie is heading to bed just a few minutes before we see the last moments of the mystery. So, this is not Reenie's favorite show!
Monday, June 15, 2009
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